Hot Pot.

When it’s cold outside, I would like to eat something that can make you warm inside. For dinner today, we had hot pot. Hot pot is something we enjoy during the cold season. I think mostly Asians are familiar with this.

There’s a variety of things you can eat for hot pot. We usually prepare different raw foods. Some of my favorites are beef balls, fish slices, fish paste, tofu, and various kinds of vegetables. You can also have other different foods like thin slices of chicken, pork, beef, and even pork livers. (My parents likes to have it for hot pot, I find the texture to be interesting. If you like to try new things, give it a shot. =P) I like to call these foods to be “appetizers” because you can have a little of whatever you like to eat since there are so many to try all at once. When we are done eating different “appetizers” that almost fill you up, we have noodles at the end where you can use the water that was used to boil the food and you can add more “appetizers” if you would like to. I really like the soup base when everyone cooks the food inside, it has a sweet taste to it. The food leaves a sweet, savory to the big pot of plain water.

The sauce may seem bizarre for most of you when you guys are going to read it. A raw egg mixed with soy sauce. Your facial expression might be like o_O or “what in the world?!” That’s what I thought when I was little too. My parents told me that the egg is suppose to calm you down and don’t have so much “fire.” In what means that is, I have no idea, but I like it. I have used this kind of sauce ever since I was little and I have enjoyed it. I don’t know what more I can say about this sauce because I don’t even understand the meaning behind it either.

This way of eating dinner might seem unusual for some families, but I know that it’s common for Chinese families. It’s also another way to have a get together with the family and enjoy the food. From what I have seen, people like to eat lots of seafood when they eat hot pot. There’s so many different ways of eating it too, a prepare soup base like a spicy one. Supposedly, if it’s really spicy, you warm up faster in the cold. I haven’t tried it yet because my family doesn’t want to try a hot, spicy soup base yet. But I’m willing to try it sometime in the future. Hehe. =P